Apian High School

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Apian High School
Apian High School.JPG
type of school high school
founding 1972
address

Maximilianstrasse 25a

place Ingolstadt
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 44 '41 "  N , 11 ° 25' 21"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '41 "  N , 11 ° 25' 21"  E
student around 1120
management Alfred Stockmeier
Website www.apian.de

The Apian-Gymnasium is a secondary school in Ingolstadt . It was created in 1972 through a spin-off from the Christoph-Scheiner-Gymnasium . The school is named after the Ingolstadt professors Peter (1495–1552) and Philipp Apian (1531–1589) and currently has around 1120 students. The grammar school was initially housed in the high school in the city center and has been the only grammar school in Ingolstadt outside of the old town since the construction of the new building on Maximilianstrasse in 1974-78.

Training directions

It comprises a scientific and technological branch with English as the first and French or Latin as the second foreign language with a focus on mathematics , physics and chemistry , the business branch with English as the first, Latin or French as the second foreign language and economics and law as a further major from the 9th grade with a focus on economics and accounting / business informatics , as well as the linguistic branch with English as the first, Latin or French as the second and Spanish as the third foreign language.

Promotion of the natural sciences

The high school is characterized by the active promotion of the natural sciences, for years it has had the largest number of registrations in the Jugend forscht competition in Bavaria - students experiment and maintains a large collection of live animals for teaching purposes ( vivarium ), which is unique in German schools . There are more than 60 species represented, some of which are only kept in a few large zoos apart from this school, such as the Azteca ant , the largest crustacean living on land, the palm thief or the threatened Mexican axolotl .

The SIGNO inventor club, funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology , is one of the most renowned in Germany.

The school is one of eight Bavarian grammar schools selected by the Ministry of Culture for the pilot project Center of Excellence  - Center for School Quality of the Bavarian Education Pact Foundation . As part of this project, under the motto Natural Sciences - Experience and Communicate, innovative didactic concepts are developed, tested and passed on to teachers in advanced training courses.

particularities

In the science wing of the school there is a Japanese garden , which the director of studies Werner Karl created as a gift to the school when he left.

Probably the largest student-run railway museum with model trains is located in the basement of the school.

The high school is a sports base for tennis, soccer and swimming.

Well-known teachers and graduates

  • Manfred Schuhmann , former member of the Bavarian State Parliament (SPD)
  • Alfred Ostermeier, mayor of Böhmfeld
  • Werner Karl, PhD historian with numerous contributions to regional history

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